Manga like Fuuka

BECK

Also known as BECK.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

For the first 14 years of his life, Yukio Tanaka has been one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. He yearns for an exciting life, but his shy, and somewhat neurotic personality make him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets Ryusuke Minami, a wild and unpredictable 16 year-old fresh from America, who happens to be in a rock-and-roll band named after his Frankenstein-like patched dog—Beck.



Tags: Band , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Rock Music , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Foreign , Heterosexual , Work , Crime , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Love Triangle , School , Mafia , Guns , Swimming , Martial Arts

Hitman

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Kenzaki Ryuunosuke is a new editor for Weekly Shounen Magazine, but his love for an unpopular series gets him no love with his coworkers. He meets Takanashi Tsubasa, an aspiring mangaka, and seeks to prove himself by making her the number one manga artist in Japan.

Tags: Drawing , Work , Meta , Urban , Heterosexual , Shounen , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Megami no Café Terrace

Also known as The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

When Hayato's grandmother passed, he planned to sell her rundown café on the shore—not realizing that it was also home to five young women who call themselves her family?! Their desperation to keep the café open convinces Hayato to give it a shot...but even their best intentions might not be enough to make it work! And can he even work with these five unruly women? No matter what, he's got his work cut out for him! A fun new romcom by the author of Fuuka and Suzuka!



Tags: Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Work , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Family Life , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Slapstick , Found Family , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Food , Tsundere , Maids , Restaurant , Nudity , Twins , Love Triangle , Marriage

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Also known as Your Lie in April.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori Miyazono, a violinist with an unorthodox style. Can she bring Kosei back to music, and back to life?



Note: Nominated for the 2012 Manga Taisho Awards.

Tags: Tragedy , School , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Classical Music , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen

SHIORI EXPERIENCE: Jimi na Watashi to Hen na Ojisan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music

Shiori was once a guitarist in a light music club in high school, but her first live performance was dashed when her brother ran away from home with a lot of debt to become a musician in Tokyo.

A decade later, Shiori is now a high school teacher, leading a boring, uneventful life and paying off the debt... till she runs into the ghost of none other than a famous guitarist Jim-you-know-who.

A story of a 27-year-old woman on her way to a music legend begins here.

Tags: Band , Ghost , School Club , Seinen , Coming of Age , Teacher , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Anachronism , Rock Music , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

White Album 2

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance

Fall, when graduation is only half a year away. Haruki Kitahara, the final member of the light music club that dissolved, plays his guitar by the window after school in preparation for the school festival. It was the one and only adventure of a good student who spent two diligent years on his studies. But when a flowing piano melody and a voice as a clear as bell harmonize with his guitar… He goes from being alone, to being two, then three in the light music club, as the semester he dreamed of, no, hoped for, began.



Tags: Love Triangle , School , School Club , Band

Kimi no Iru Machi

Also known as A Town Where You Live.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Kirishima Haruto lives in a small town in Hiroshima and is just about to enter high school when Eba Yuzuki, a mysterious girl from Tokyo suddenly decided to go to high school in the countryside and despite his objections, she moves in to his home.

Haruto must now put up and take care of this clumsy freeloading city girl and at the same time, make sure his long time crush Kanzaki Nanami doesn't get the wrong idea! Note: this manga is set in the same universe as Suzuka.

Tags: Heterosexual , Tragedy , Love Triangle , School , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shounen , Rural , Denpa , Female Protagonist , Food

Solanin

Also known as Solanin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world.



Notes:
Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan and the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.
Includes one extra chapter and one-shot "Haru yo Koi (Awaiting Spring)" first included in the October 2017 new Japanese edition.

Tags: Coming of Age , Band , Seinen , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Urban , Rock Music , College , Office Lady , Nudity

Futsuu no Keionbu

Also known as Girl meets Rock!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

With a passion for richly textured Japanese rock, first-year high school student Chihiro Hatono steps into the world of the light music club, new guitar in tow. But what awaits her behind those doors...? A drama of unfiltered youth and musical ambition takes the stage!



Note:
Winner of the Tsugimanga 2024 Award in the Web Manga Category.

Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , School Club , Coming of Age , Rock Music , School , Shounen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Bisexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Aromantic , Yuri

Seishun Pop!

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Music , Romance

Sakuta loves to keep his earphones in his ears at all times because he loves to hear the world through his earphones. He especially loves the band INCEST and the singer, named IVE (pronounced eve), who is like an idol to him. One day when he visits the music shop, he gets his hands on a concert ticket for INCEST. Surprised and excited about the concert, Sakuta goes to the concert and he sees the band. He also sees IVE, who he notices is the new transfer student who transferred to his school the very same day. When their eyes meet, the music stops, and IVE stops singing. She looks into the crowd and asks the audience to make room for her to pass by. She walks down the middle of the aisle, towards Sakuta, and the next thing he notices, IVE is hugging him tightly saying, "I've wanted to meet you!" WHAT!?



Tags: Incest , Seinen , Yandere , Male Protagonist , School , Band , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Amnesia